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2005 BMW 545I: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2005 BMW 545I. NHTSA has 78 complaints on file for this model year. 2 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2005 BMW 545I. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 78 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

78 complaints, 121 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

  • 2005 BMW 545I
  • All 2005 vehicles
2005 BMW 545I: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2005 545IAll 2005 vehicles545I, all yearsMentions
Air Bags305.886.7281.437
Power Train124115.1115.615
Electrical System115.7121.9130.714
Seat Belts74.41170.49
Service Brakes, Hydraulic57.931.345.27
Steering41.375.345.25
Wheels33.19.520.14
Seats33.113.535.24
Tires24.815.815.13
Structure24.866.215.13

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 21.

Complaints that report a crash
2
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
1
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
8 Mar 2024

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 2005 BMW 545I, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2011, with 13 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2005 BMW 545I
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA08001Engineering analysisBMW AIRBAG LIGHT ILLUMINATIONAir Bags4 Jan 200831 Dec 200808V384000
PE07045Preliminary evaluationBMW AIRBAG LIGHT ILLUMINATIONAir Bags4 Sep 20074 Jan 2008

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20040
  2. 20050

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2005 BMW 545I: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/545i/2005/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the BMW 545I have for all model years?
NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the BMW 545I, model years 2004 to 2005.
Which component do the complaints about the 2005 BMW 545I name most often?
Air Bags: 37 of 121 component mentions, or 305.8 per 1,000. For all 2005 vehicles the figure is 86.7 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2005 BMW 545I open?
No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.